Blood and thunder : the epic story of Kit Carson and the conquest of the American West / Hampton Sides.
2007
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Title
Blood and thunder : the epic story of Kit Carson and the conquest of the American West / Hampton Sides.
Author
Sides, Hampton.
Edition
1st Anchor books edition, October 2007.
ISBN
9781400031108 (pbk.)
1400031109 (pbk.)
1400031109 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : Anchor Books, 2007.
Language
English
Description
xi, 578 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Call Number
F591 .S54 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
978/.02
Summary
Chronicles the history of the nineteenth-century Southwest, focusing on the destruction of the Navajo nation from the 1820s to the 1860s, and looking at the role of trapper, soldier, and scout Kit Carson in the removal and deaths of the Native Americans.
Note
Originally published in hardcover by Doubleday in 2006.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-548) and index.
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Table of Contents
Prologue : Hoofbeats
pt. 1. The new men.
Jumping off
The glittering world
The Army of the West
Singing grass
Blue Bead Mountain
Who is James K. Polk?
What a wild life!
The ruling hand of providence
The Pathfinder
When the land is sick
The un-Alamo
We will correct all this
Narbona Pass
The uninvaded silence
On the altar of the country
A perfect butchery
The fire of Montezuma
Your duty, Mr. Carson
Daggers in every look
Men with ears down to their ankles
The hall of final ruin
The new men
pt. 2. A broken country.
The grim metronome
Lords of the mountains
The devil's turnpike
Our red children
Cold steel
El Crepusculo
American mercury
Time at last sets all things even
A broken country
The finest head I ever saw
The death knot
Men without eyes
Blood and thunder
pt. 3. Monster slayer.
The fearing time
People of the single star
The sons of some dear mother
The round forest
Children of the mist
General orders no. 15
Fortress Rock
The long walk
Adobe walls
The condition of the tribes
Crossing purgatory
Epilogue : In beauty we walk.
pt. 1. The new men.
Jumping off
The glittering world
The Army of the West
Singing grass
Blue Bead Mountain
Who is James K. Polk?
What a wild life!
The ruling hand of providence
The Pathfinder
When the land is sick
The un-Alamo
We will correct all this
Narbona Pass
The uninvaded silence
On the altar of the country
A perfect butchery
The fire of Montezuma
Your duty, Mr. Carson
Daggers in every look
Men with ears down to their ankles
The hall of final ruin
The new men
pt. 2. A broken country.
The grim metronome
Lords of the mountains
The devil's turnpike
Our red children
Cold steel
El Crepusculo
American mercury
Time at last sets all things even
A broken country
The finest head I ever saw
The death knot
Men without eyes
Blood and thunder
pt. 3. Monster slayer.
The fearing time
People of the single star
The sons of some dear mother
The round forest
Children of the mist
General orders no. 15
Fortress Rock
The long walk
Adobe walls
The condition of the tribes
Crossing purgatory
Epilogue : In beauty we walk.